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New Employment Opportunity Available At Upfield

Company: Upfield
Location: Ghana, Tema
Job type: Full-Time
Job category: Accounting Jobs in Ghana

Job Description

At Upfield our purpose is clear: we make people healthier and happier with nutritious and delicious, natural, plant-based products that are good for you, our planet; and with packaging that’s free from plastic.

We are the largest plant-based company in the world, and we believe in doing what’s right for our people, our customers and the planet.

We’ve got iconic brands like Rama, Country Crock, Blue Band and Flora that people all over the world know and love. We’ve been a trusted category leader since 1871 and yet we feel like we’re only just getting started.

Performance, Passion and Care define who we are as a company, how we work every day, and the responsibility we feel toward our Associates, our consumers, our business partners and our world.

We have big ambitions to grow this business and we want to attract the right people – those that love what they do, thrive on responsibility and are looking for limitless career defining opportunities.

You’ll have to enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and it will take hard work and determination; we will give you the ownership you need to make an impact.

You’ll have to deliver on the commitments you make. And we’ll give you the freedom and flexibility to do your job and build your own career.

If you want to make an impact where it matters apply now!

Your Role

Your Main Responsibilities: –

OVH, BMI and Forecasting

Support the managing and reporting of OVHs and BMI costs
Support the correct bookings of costs in P&L as per SCOA
Contribute to forecasting of working capital and support related budget owners
Aid in forecasting and other ad-hoc business analysis

P2P Analysis

P2P Metrics – POT (Payment on time), POC (PO Compliance), FPY (First Pass Yield) – working with/ supporting OC with directive to improve metrics
Approval of urgent/ manual payments
Query Escalations from business on poor service/ issues
Resolve audit queries which IBM/ OC cannot resolve
GRNI support
Provide ad-hoc support to countries within the BU

O2C and credit controls

Manage customer overdues across all customers
Improve working capital through management of customer payment performance and trade term compliance
Manage and mitigate bad debt and minimise bad debt provision
Work with the shared service teams to ensure effective and aligned communication and deliverables are met
Worked with shared service teams to ensure that accounts are reconciled correctly, customer statements issued in a timely manner
Work with shared service and other internal functions to ensure that customer claims are placed in a timely manner and support the resolution of deductions on customer accounts
Support to ensure accurate and timely month end reporting
Support first line investigation and resolution of finance issues
Provide support for Commercial Finance Business Partner as needed from time to time.

Skills, experience, and qualifications: –